Dashboard is an open-source dashboard application that is used to display a variety of metrics and data in real-time. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Dashboard on nixOS Latest.
Before you start installing Dashboard, you will need the following prerequisites:
nixOS Latest already comes with Nix package manager pre-installed. If you don't have it installed, you can follow these steps to install it:
$ sudo systemctl stop nix-daemon.socket
$ sudo systemctl stop nix-daemon.service
$ sudo rm -rf /nix
$ sudo mkdir /nix
$ sudo chown your_username_here /nix
$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh
Dashboard is written in Rust and to install it, you need to have Rust installed on your system. You can install Rust using the following command in your terminal:
$ nix-env -iA rustChannels.nightly.rustup
Now, clone the Dashboard repository from GitHub by running the following command:
$ git clone https://github.com/phntxx/dashboard.git
To build Dashboard, navigate to the cloned repository and run the following command:
$ cargo build --release
This will build the application and create a binary file in the target/release directory.
After building the application, you can run Dashboard by navigating to the target/release directory and executing the binary file:
$ cd target/release
$ ./dashboard
This will start the application and you can access it by visiting http://localhost:8000 in your web browser.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to install Dashboard on nixOS Latest. With Dashboard, you can easily display real-time metrics and data in a graphical format, making it easier to monitor your systems and applications.
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